Jazon Zimba is the founding principal of Student Achievement Partners and lead writer of the Common Core mathematics standards. I appreciated having a chance to sit down and chat with him about the whole ordeal.

We have done a poor job of equipping leaders to address these challenges; squeeze the most value out of scarce funds; and to make the fullest use of twenty-first-century talent, tools, and technology. Cage-Busting Leadership is one modest attempt to help us do better.

The AEI Program on American Citizenship just published an intriguing piece titled They've just published an intriguing piece titled "Charter schools as nation builders" by my colleagues Daniel Lautzenheiser and Andrew Kelly, looking at Harlem's Democracy Prep charter network and sketching out its unique approach to civic education.